Suspender-buckle.



J. H. PILKINGTON.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

APPLICATION HLED OCT- 9l 19H.

1,136,610 Patented Apr. 20, 1915.

WIT/VESSESr h H lame 570R T v a s, ep ,z :1 n on QM V By 9 ATTORNEKSUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH H. PILKINGTON, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

Application filed October 9, 1914.

' To all whom it mag concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. PrnKrNo- TON,a citizen of the United States, and resident of \Vaterbury, in thecounty of New Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 20, 1915.

Serial No. 865,783.

vertical sectional view and with operating lever indicated in an openposition. Fig. 6 is a disconnected plan view of the main frame ofthebuckle. Fig. 7 is a detached Haven and State of Connecticut, have inrearview of the operating lever of the 60 vented certain new and usefulImprovebuckle and Fig. 8 is a disconnected plan ments inSuspender-Buckles, of which the view of the. wire clamping member whichis the following is a specification. operated by the operating lever toclamp the My present invention relates to suspender webbing.

10 buckles and isalso adapted to be employed As before suggested mypresent form of 65 upon flat webbing when used for hose supbuckleincludes two sheet metal members porters and other purposes. and a wiremember. One of the sheet metal The object of' the invention is toprovide members forms the main frame or body of an improved form ofsuspender buckle the buckle, while the other represents the which has noteeth to mar or cut the weboperating member which is pivotally con- 70bing and besides has very little exposed nected to the frame member.This operatmetal upon the back of the webbing to coning member serves tooperate not only tact with the body of the wearer thus conagainst thewebbing, but against the clampstituting in effect a rustless buckle; todeing member which is pivotally connected to sign the buckle to includethe above features the frame member in a way to engage and 75 in asimple and practical way so as to perclamp the webbing between it andthe back mit of the same being made of sheet metal of the saidframe-member. and wire combined and with the aid of auto- Referring indetail to the characters of 'matic machinery. reference marked upon thedrawings 10 in With these and other objects in view the dicates theframe member and' which is 80 invention resides and consists in theconclearly shown in Fig. 6. This member as struction and novelcombination and arwill be noted includes a large central openrangementof parts hereinafter more fully ing 11 therethrough and is further outand described, illustrated in the accompanying shaped to produce ahorizontal bar12 to drawings, and pointed out in the claims which theattached end 13 of the webbing 85 hereto appended, it being understoodthat 14: is secured. In this connection it will be various changes inthe form, proportion, further. noted that the webbing as attached sizeand minor details of construction withis returned upward in the rear toform a in the scope of the claims may be resorted loop 15 and in whichmay be hung a wire to without departure from the spirit or loop 16 thatobviously represents apart of a 90 sacrificing any of the advantages ofthe inclamping device for a supporter. The upvention. I wardly disposedrunning portion 17 of the Similar characters of reference denote likewebbing is threaded through the back of the or corresponding partsthroughout the sev; buckle and clamped as will later be more eralfigures of the accompanying drawings fully described. 95 forming a partof this specification, and -'lheside portions 18 of the frame memberupon which, are stamped backward and forward to form Figure 1 shows afront elevation of my alined pockets 19 upon the under side to improvedform of buckle as the same would accommodate the pintles 20 of theoperating appear when attached to a piece of webmember 21 and further toform similar bing, the operating lever-being in a'closed alined pockets22 upon the front .side in or clamped position. Fig. 2 is a sideelevawhich the before mentioned clamping memtion of the buckle andattached webbing ber 23 is pivotally mounted. The upwardly shown inFi 1. Fig. 3 shows \a further disposed back 24 of the frame is concavedfront view 0 L myimproved buckle attached slightly upon its under side,see Figs. 4 and 105 to a piece of webbing, but the operating 5, tobetter accommodate-the webbing and lever being in a changed and openposition. clamping bar 25 of the clamping member 23. Fig. 4 is a centralvertical longitudlnal sec- As will be noted the wire clamping memtionthrough the buckle and webbing as her shown in detail in Fig. 8 and alsoin is a similar central each of the assembled views includes a horishownin Fig. 1. Fig. 5

zontal top clamping bar connecting side or end portions 26 and alinedpivotal bars 27 which as will be noted are seated in the beforementioned pockets 22 of the frame member. The end portions 28 of thewire clamping member are disposed out from the pivotal portions 27 andin an opposite direction from position of the clamping bar and in theassemblement of the buckle are arranged in the path of operation of theshort arm 29 of the operating lever. It will thus be seen that when thelever 21 is turned from an outwardly disposed position as shown in Fig.5 to a closed or clamped position as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4 the saidshort arm of the operating lever will bear upon the free ends 28 of theclamping member and in a way to force the said arms back and rock theclamping member upon its alined bars 27 and within the sockets 22 sothat the horizontal clamping bar 25 of the said clamping member will bethrown forward and against the running portion of' the webbing so as tofirmly clamp the same between said bar of the clamping member and theconca-ved back portion of the frame-member.

This form of buckle is readily adapted for various thicknesses ofwebbing since the wire clamping member is susceptible of yielding tofaconsiderable extent and will thus form a reliable clamp on most anythickness of webbing which may be placed thereunder. It will also benoted that when attached to a webbing and threaded in the mannerindicated the back of the buckle is all covered by the webbing with theexception of the horizontal clamping bar of the clamping member and thisin turn is embedded so to speak in .the webbing to such an extent thatit would scarcely come into contact with the bod of the wearer. Thisfeature of the wire eing embedded in the webbing is made possible andpractical as will be obviously apparent from the reason that the back asbefore stated is concaved to form a. transverse pocket to accommodatethe webbing and clamping bar.

Having thus described my invention what Copies of this intent my beobtained for five cents each, by addressing the 1. A suspender buckle,comprising a frame member including a lower bar, alined sockets and aback, a loop like clamping-member including alined pivotal barspivotally mounted in some of the sockets of the frame, a clampingbar toclamp the webbing against the back projecting portions between the saidpivotal bars, an operating lever also pivotally mounted in other of thesockets of the frame and including a short arm to engage the projectingend of the clamping-member and a long arm forming a finger piece for theoperation of the buckle.

2. A suspender buckle, comprising a sheet metal frame member including alower bar for the attachment of a piece of webbing and alined sockets, awire clamping member pivotally mounted in some of the sockets of theframe and including pivotal bars, a clamping-bar and a projectingportion upon the inside of the pivotal bars, an operating leverpivotally mounted in the sockets of the frame and including a short armto engage the projecting end of the clampingmember and a long armforming a finger piece for the operation of the buckle.

3; A suspender buckle, comprising aframe member including a lower barfor the attachment of a piece of Webbing and alined sockets and aconcave back, a wire clamping-member including pivotal bars mounted inthe sockets of the frame and a clampingbar to clamp the webbing in theconcave of the back, an operating lever also pivotally connected to theframe and including a short arm to engage the clamping-member and a longarm forming a finger piece for the operation of the buckle.

in the county of Signed at Waterbury, New Haven, and State ofConnecticut, this 7th day of October, A. D., 1914.

JOSEPH H. PILKINGTON.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

